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Dancer in the Dark(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 21min | Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 758 votes)

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles - even if just for a moment - by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

Riphagen the Untouchable(2016)

2h 12min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 74 votes)

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.

Captain Nova(2021)

3.0/5 (with 37 votes)

A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.

Directed by Maurice Trouwborst - With Anniek Pheifer, Marouane Meftah, Hannah van Lunteren, Sander van de Pavert, Bram Blankestijn, Dunya Khayame, ...

My Extraordinary Summer with Tess(2019)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 22min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

As the youngest of the family, Sam is haunted by the notion that someday he could become the last remaining survivor, all alone. On a family vacation at the beach, he meets the unconventional Tess, who carries her own secrets around with her and shows him how the present moment can win out over memories and anxiety about what’s yet to come.

Directed by Steven Wouterlood - With Julian Ras, Sonny Coops van Utteren, Josephine Arendsen, Tjebbo Gerritsma, Jennifer Hoffman, Terence Schreurs, ...

A Most Annoying Island(2019)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A curse that is centuries-old. An island full of annoying people. A contaminated prime-minister. A boy full of dreams who can turn this around. But how? A movie full of raps that don't rhyme, talking dolls and heroic actions.

Misha and the Wolves(2021)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.

Oink(2022)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 12min | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A young girl sets out to prove to her disapproving mother she can house-train the endearing but unruly little piglet she gets as a birthday gift from her estranged oddball grandfather.

Directed by Mascha Halberstad

Darwin's Nightmare(2005)

1h 47min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of many native species. Its meat is exported everywhere in exchange for weapons, creating a globalized evil alliance on the lake shores. An infernal nightmare in the real world that wipes out Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

Directed by Hubert Sauper

Drowning by Numbers(1988)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 63 votes)

Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love with all three women and helps to disguise the murders.

Hemel(2012)

1h 20min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 14 votes)

Divided into chapters, the film first chronicles Hemel's many sexual conquests, but then takes on a different tone as it explores her complicated relationship with her father, Gijs. A dapper auctioneer, Gijs has dated a series of younger women since Hemel's mother's death. But when Gijs starts seeing the charming Sophie, for the first time Hemel feels that her special relationship with her father is threatened...

Eisenstein in Guanajuato(2015)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 33 votes)

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

The Hero(2016)

1h 36min | Crime, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 6 votes)

After Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in a series of violent attacks she realizes she needs to unravel her father’s past in order to neutralize this threat.

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A Zed & Two Noughts(1985)

1h 55min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 59 votes)

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

The House I Live In(2012)

1h 50min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 31 votes)

In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong?

Directed by Eugene Jarecki - With David Simon, Charles Bowden, Gabor Maté

2/11 Het spel van de wolf(2014)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime, History
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

2 November 2004, shortly before nine in the morning. In The Hague, the report comes in that in Amsterdam Theo van Gogh has been murdered. All warning bells start ringing. With the country in flames, sometimes literally, politicians and officials in The Hague have to neutralise all sorts of known and unknown stings, and just when Van Gogh’s cremation seems to herald a period of relative peace, a second explosion follows: the attack on the Hofstad Network in the Laakkwartier in The Hague. A reconstruction of nine days of political high tension and flying dust, a decade after the assassination of the trendsetting filmmaker and TV presenter.

A Noble Intention(2015)

1h 55min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.

Corn(2017)

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Within a dream, a man and woman find each other. But as the dream seems to turn into a nightmare, the couple risk losing their special connection.

Full Contact(2015)

1h 45min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Full Contact is a contemporary tale of a man trying to find new purpose in life after accidentally bombing a school through a remotely operated drone plane. Ivan, operating the plane from a far away air force base, has never been to the foreign countries of his attacks, nor has he ever touched the plane he uses to kill. Modern warfare keeps him safe and disconnected from his prey. However, after this incident Ivan's disconnectedness starts to apply to everything in his life. He is overwhelmed by feelings of guilt that he is unable to process.

170 Hz(2012)

1h 23min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Nick and Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evy’s parents do not consent to their relationship. They run away and move into an abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway love brings them new opportunities and new hardships...

My Father Is an Airplane(2021)

1h 32min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

When Eva’s mother unexpectedly dies, the life of Eva turns out to be built on secrets and lies. The fear of losing her mind, just like her father who has been living in a mental facility for many years, becomes more and more of a threat, propelling Eva on a quest into her past to face her demons.

Directed by Antoinette Beumer

Take Me Somewhere Nice(2019)

1h 31min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road.

Directed by Ena Sendijarevic

In Amazon We Trust(2018)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Amazon has become one of the most powerful corporations in the world, and only the second company ever to be valued over US$1 trillion. This film investigates its strategies, inner workings and ideologies and asks whether the services that we have become so dependent on could eventually cost us our hard won freedoms, and how one of the world’s most trusted brands has influenced our individual behaviour, labour force and culture.

Suzy Q(1999)

1h 22min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!(2008)

1h 26min | Documentary, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its 34 painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt's paintings into 17th century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate beings. However, reality was different.

Dark Light(1997)

53min | Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A burglar gets caught on a farm by an older woman. The religious woman, who's body is covered with ulceration, believes he is there for a reason.

Abel(1986)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

A well-to-do, thirty-something shut-in faces city life, family secrets and his own quirks when he is finally thrown out by his parents.

9/11: Life Under Attack(2021)

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A unique and compelling account of the day that changed the modern world, captured by ordinary people who chose to pick up their cameras and film that fateful day.

AmnesiA(2001)

1h 30min | Thriller
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics. The thought of a confrontation with the area where he grew up and the renewed encounter with his family makes him feel nervous. Nevertheless, that evening he leaves for AmnesiA: the estate of his parents, the spot where he spent his youth.

Paradise Framed(1995)

58min | Drama

In this art-film, a famous multimedia artist abandons his former life for a new one in a hermetically sealed room filled with living portraits. His new space becomes a haven for the terminally dysfunctional. Trouble ensues when two strangers, the world-weary Col. Hardy and the handsome son of an aspiring presidential candidate, come to collect on a commissioned work of art.

Wir sind die Roboter(2020)

1h 25min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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